Deadline: 31 January 2025
The Nordic Culture Point is thrilled to invite applications for its Travel Funding to support individual professional practitioners of art and culture in the Nordic and Baltic region.
Mobility funding is part of the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture, which strengthens artistic and cultural cooperation in the Nordic region and the Baltic countries. The programme focuses on increasing the exchange of knowledge, contacts and interest in Nordic and Baltic art and culture.
Objectives
- Promote and increase contact, communication and activities between the Nordic and/or Baltic countries;
- Strengthen the Nordic-Baltic presence in the cultural scene of the Nordic and Baltic region;
- Strengthen understanding of the similarities and differences between the Nordic and Baltic countries; and
- Improve awareness of Nordic and Baltic artists and their work.
Eligible Activities
- A collaboration with colleagues in another Nordic and/or Baltic country
- A guest play
- An exhibition
- Participation in a conference, meeting or workshop
- Research
Ineligible Activities
- Funding is not available for:
- trips within one and the same country/area
- trips to or from countries outside the Nordic/Baltic region
- trips which are a part of the applicant’s formal studies
- organisational or company travel
- official travel for employees in public administration – e.g. state authorities, municipalities, regions or the equivalent.
- activities that have already been carried out the earliest start date for activities funded by the programme is eight weeks after the application deadline.
Eligible Countries
- Mobility funding is available for professional artists’ or cultural practitioners’ travel and/or stay within the Nordic and/or Baltic countries, that is to say: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Åland.
Eligibility Criteria
- Mobility funding gives individual applicants access to contacts, expertise and knowledge from different parts of the region. Funding can also be used to present art and culture productions and to raise interest in Nordic and Baltic art and culture.
- Funding is available for professional artists and cultural practitioners (such as curators, producers, literary translators, cultural editors or researchers) in all forms of art and culture. “Professional” means that there is documented experience of work in the field of art and culture and/or training in art or culture.
- Mobility funding can only be granted to individuals. You cannot apply for funding for another person. If you apply as part of a group traveling together within the framework of the same project, all group members must submit individual applications.
For more information, visit Nordic Culture Point.